Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them.
New American Standard Bible
I became
King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Holman Bible
and I was a joke to them.
International Standard Version
When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.
A Conservative Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
American Standard Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
Amplified
When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.
Bible in Basic English
When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
Darby Translation
And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
Julia Smith Translation
And I will give my clothing sackcloth, and I for a parable to them.
King James 2000
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.
NET Bible
I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.
New Heart English Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
The Emphasized Bible
When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;
Webster
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
World English Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, it turned to my reproach. 11 I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them. 12 They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have made holy for My name I will cast out of My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.
Jeremiah 24:9
and I will even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where Jehovah shall lead you.
Job 17:6
He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.
Psalm 35:13-14
But when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalm 44:13-14
You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.
Isaiah 20:2
at that time Jehovah spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and take your shoe off your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
Joel 1:8
Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.